I downloaded the trial (they only let you download the beta if you want to try it out), and it installed fine. However, Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2 did not want to install. I did not try Dreamweaver because I'm going to need all three anyway. You can download the trials of the Adobe programs at http://www.adobe.com if you want to. If you can get those three programs working on Cross Over, then let me know because I'd definitely be interested in not even needing an emulator, heh.

I have photoshop working but it's version 7. I guess I haven't tried the latest ones to see if they would or not. I have adapted to using linux programs instead. I'm not a fan of emulation cause in all my experiences with it, it's never stable. It took some getting use to, but the transition can happen.

Well, yeah, MacOS 9 was my first operating system, and I do use MacOS X a lot, but I've been using Windows for quite a while. I think you may have simply misunderstood me. I didn't mean "drag and drop the program onto my computer." I meant that on their web site, they have an ebuild file that you can download. I downloaded the ebuild file, and want to put it in my "/usr/portage/app-emulation" folder.

While we try to get Parallels up and running (like I said, I just want to experiment), I'm going to be playing with the vmware. I'm pretty new to vmware, but I don't have any questions yet on account of still needing to get it going, heh. I think I can figure out vmware though.

I entered that in. It said that I needed to agree to their EULA to continue, and that to view it, I should just press entered. So I did. However, there is no obvious way of agreeing to the EULA. I was expecting it to say at the bottom of the file "Do you agree to this? (yes/no)" or something, but nope! Any thoughts?

Edit: Predictably, it was simply to get the EULA to be agreed. I had to figure out to press q to quit, and then it asked me if I agreed. Onward ho!

I got the ebuild archive of Parallels working! I had to use mkdir as root to make the directories after making a new overlay for those directories, and then I used cp to copy each file in the archive to its proper place. Unmasked the package, and I am presently emerging. And... emerge successful!

I feel empowered now.

At any rate, I shall begin playing with Parallels. But I'd still like to experiment with vmware. Is there a reason why the Gentoo-Wiki suggested that I use vmware-workstation instead of vmware-server like you guys said?

I've unmerged vmware-workstation and emerged vmware-server just like you said. It emerged fine, and I ran the config file it told me to and added it to the default run level like it said to, and I added both "root" and "james" (that's my account) to the vmware-server group like it said I needed to. All that was left was to type vmware-server into konsole as the su, since that's what it said to do to start it after everything was done.